37.2 Using the Wizard to Install Event Auditing Service

The following procedure describes how to install EAS using an installation wizard, either in GUI format or from the console. To perform a silent, unattended installation, see Section 37.3, Installing Event Auditing Service Silently.

To prepare for the installation, review the prerequisites and system requirements listed in Section 36.4.1, System Requirements for the Event Auditing Service. Also see the Release Notes accompanying the release.

  1. Log in to a supported computer where you want to install EAS.

  2. (Conditional) If you have the .iso image file for the Identity Manager installation package, navigate to the directory containing the EAS installation files, located by default in the products/EAS/ directory.

  3. (Conditional) If you downloaded the EAS installation files from the NetIQ Downloads website, complete the following steps:

    1. Navigate to the .tgz file for the downloaded image.

    2. Extract the contents of the file to a folder on the local computer.

  4. From the directory that contains the installation files, launch the installation program:

    ./EASInstall.bin
  5. In the installation program, specify the language that you want to use for installation, and then click OK.

  6. Accept the License Agreement, and then click Next.

  7. Review the Introduction text, and then click Next.

  8. In the Installation Directory window, click Next.

  9. In the Utilities Administrator Password window, specify the password for the admin user of the EAS utilities.

    NOTE:On an SUSE Linux (SLES) server, the password must meet the systems password policy for SLES.

  10. Click Next

  11. In the EAS Administrator Password window, specify the password for the dbauser.

    NOTE:On an SUSE Linux (SLES) server, the password must meet the systems password policy for SLES.

  12. Click Next

  13. Specify the port on which the PostgreSQL database runs, and then click Next.

  14. Read the Pre-Installation Summary, and then click Install.

  15. (Conditional) To use the Syslog UDP connector, select Enable Port Forwarding, and then click Next.

  16. When the installation process completes, click Done.

  17. (Conditional) To perform an action like a pg_dump of the EAS installation, you must export the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable:

    1. Log in to the server as a non-root user. For example, novleas user.

    2. In a terminal, run the following command:

      . /opt/novell/sentinel_eas/bin/setenv.sh

      This command tells the system to fetch the contents of the setenv.sh file from the installation folder.